Local resident and artist Irene Strange reports on the 110th annual exhibition of the Portsmouth and Hampshire Art Society, at Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral, 27th July – 7th August. The Portsmouth & Hampshire Art Society was [… read more ]
Siobhan Coleman reviews the official launch of a new Portsmouth creative business, Paint Chill Co, and discovers the joys of mixing art with alcohol. At ten o’clock on Thursday evening, the official launch party for [… read more ]
Over the next few weeks, the University of Portsmouth’s School of Media and Performing Arts is hosting a series of intriguing talks that are free and open to the public. Deborah Shaw, SMPA’s Reader in Film [… read more ]
The Endless Village is a satirical art exhibition coming to Aspex from Thursday 29th March and featuring archival material, oral history interviews and moving image work in the form of a satirical sitcom, accompanied by [… read more ]
While social media has been a boon to visual artists, all too often their work is defaced, hijacked and plagiarised on it. The Galleon’s Anna Ryan explains. Digital media helps artists promote their work instantly [… read more ]
An outdoor artist space in Fareham is running an open call for artists to submit proposals for a new public art space, the Boarhunt 4th Plinth. Sarah Cheverton talks to co-organiser and Portsmouth-based artist Adrian [… read more ]
The Journeys Festival International launched last week with the opening of the Aspex Gallery Artist in Residence programme: poet Majid Dhana’s and artist Natalia Michalska’s collaboration exhibition Look Up, which explores the stories and experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in [… read more ]
S&C’s critic and reporter Emily Priest visits a new addition to Portsmouth’s café scene, as it works to overcome the controversy and politics that saw its previous operators infamously evicted. Back in February this year, Portsmouth [… read more ]
Emily Priest reviews the first Special Collections event at the University of Portsmouth Library and finds a treasure trove of local history and culture that many local residents have yet to discover. On the 25th [… read more ]
The University of Portsmouth is opening the doors to its Special Collections in a unique and free community event to celebrate the University’s 25th birthday. The University of Portsmouth Library is hosting a free event [… read more ]
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